What are the benefits of eating pumpkins?
Today I'd like to introduce you a kind of melon, the protagonist of Halloween in the West every year, which is also a vegetable often eaten by Chinese people. It's pumpkin.
Pumpkin contains high starch and carbohydrates, which belongs to staple food in classification. In fact, don't underestimate pumpkin. It's not a common dish. There's a secret behind pumpkin that doctors won't tell you.
Nutritional efficacy of pumpkin
Detumescence
Pumpkin is a kind of vegetable with high potassium and low sodium. Rich potassium can improve edema and fatigue. Pumpkin has the effect of detoxification and detumescence, and it is thought that eating pumpkin can diuretic.
Nurturing stomach
Millet pumpkin porridge is also a typical stomach food. Besides being easy to digest and not aggravating the burden of stomach, pumpkin contains pectin which can also protect gastric mucosa, promote ulcer healing and help digestion.
moisten the skin
Pumpkin is rich in carotenoids, vitamin C, vitamin E and folic acid, which can help skin to resist oxidation, improve roughness and dullness, and restore luster.
Enriching blood
Ancient people believed that "pumpkin is a wonderful blood tonic product", its blood tonic effect comes from iron, folic acid, vitamin B12, zinc and cobalt elements are all substances that constitute blood or promote the synthesis of red blood cells. At the same time, it is recorded that pumpkin has the effect of tonifying both qi and blood.
Relieving Eye Fatigue
Modern workers often have dry eyes, fear of light, tears, keratitis, blurred vision and other phenomena. Pumpkins are rich in carotene and vitamin A, both of which can play a role in maintaining eye health.
Pumpkin boiled soybean milk works wonderfully
Pumpkin is rich in nutrition, including protein, sugar, fat, cellulose, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, vitamin C, adenine, arginine, citrulline, aspartic acid, cucurbitacin, mannitol and so on.
Pumpkin Soybean Milk
Practice:
Take a bowl of soybean milk and pumpkin, wash the skin, cut the seeds into small pieces, put soybean milk and pumpkin into the pot, add eight full cups of water, boil on fire.